AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +1551%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Sep 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

254W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G84

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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